There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. Thats almost as many as died in June, 1944. Right to the very end, it was absolutely brutal.
Rick AtkinsonI was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back when the American Army was still in Austria. I grew up subsequently in posts around the country around veterans.
Rick AtkinsonThere is something within our biological structure that screams out and says it is morally wrong for the old to outlive the young. This is one of the times when God doesnโt seem to make sense. This is the worst that life gets.
Rick Atkinson